Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere but I am unable to find a simple solution.
My music collection, started long ago, was mainly classical and, because of the complexity and lack of support in those days for tagging, I have evolved a system based on folders named after composer/artist with subfolders containing individual albums. This is fine for playing individual symphonies and operas. Over recent years I have broadened my interests into many other genres where listening to random tracks is far more appropriate and interesting. So I've just purchased Erland's excellent plugin package and exploring the joys Dynamic Playlists etc. But I have been unable to find a way to specify a particular folder and sub-folders in the selection criteria. Trying to do it by genre is a nightmare because the tags on my older classical stuff are a mess and the tags are cluttered with all sorts of junk. Since tagging of classical is not an issue for me, I'm not prepared to spend vast amounts of time trying to tidy this up. However, my newer non-classical stuff is tagged much better. So, for example, all my popular music is in Music/Pop, how can I set up a dynamic playlist which selects random tracks only from the stuff in the Pop folder and ignores the other folders containing classical? The tags is the Pop/rock category are good enough to work OK via SQL for my needs but need to be partitioned from the rest. So far I've not had much luck - Elvis mixed with bleeding chunks of Wagner is not really to my taste! In every other respect the Dynamic Playlist is great but I've not been able to get it to perform exclusively across my whole Pop/Rock collection. An extra bonus is that it's preventing me from locking up my system if I inadvertently create huge playlists, which previously caused the whole system to crash (Tranquil BBS2, Intel D510MO, 4GB RAM with WHS 2011, Squeezebox Server 7.56 - also working much better since recent upgrade from WHS v1). If someone can point me towards sorting this I'd be immensely grateful Chip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ChipMonk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40072 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95581 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
